“The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he`s played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.” NeedsMayPlayRealityUsedGamesMediaFiguresTrumpBlameConvenientMemesFoilsPersonal Attacks Author:Chris Hayes
“Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.” CertainTrumpBlameFaults Author:Fran Lebowitz
“When Donald Trump - star of 'Celebrity Apprentice', the man who brought you Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and Trump "University" very likely fraud and fail; and Twitter-hands extraordinaire - is setting up his bobblehead on the desk of the Oval Office and shredding through nuclear codes, you only have yourself to blame.” MenHandsStarsFailingHe ManTrumpOfficeBlameUniversityNuclearSettingSettingsCodeFraudDesksSteakApprenticeVodkaOvalShredding Author:Chrissy Teigen
“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.” PeopleWayNumbersSupportGroupsEconomicTrumpEasierCrisisBlameRaisedImmigrantsVocabularyMurdererLatinoIntersectionsEconomic CrisisHappenstanceScumbags Author:Junot Diaz
“Donald Trump's blaming the media, he's blaming the GOP, he's saying that America can't run a fair election. He is swinging at every phantom of his own imagination because he knows he's losing.” KnowsRunningAmericaImaginationMediaTrumpLosingFairsElectionBlamePhantomsGop Author:Tim Kaine
“Where would the Republican Party being without talk radio the last 25 years? And yet who now is enemy number one? Talk radio! I don't know what I did to Michael Gerson, but he's back again in the Washington Post blaming everything [Donald] Trump on me.” KnowsYearsLastsPartyNumbersEnemyTrumpRepublicanBlameRadioPostsRepublican PartyBack AgainTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.” MatterJobsEnjoyWifeFailingTrumpBlameSurrogatesStepford Wives Author:Kathleen Hanna
“[Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.” ThinkingWellsStatesFacesGivenPresidentChallengesUnitedDealsUnited StatesTrumpOfficeCriticismBlameManagePresidency Author:William Weld
“If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way.” IfsWayWinningLossTrumpDirectorsLateBlameDemocratCampaignsFbiUnprecedented Author:Mara Liasson
“I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that.” PeopleThinkingTrumpAnxietyBlameFolks Author:Keith Ellison
“If you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like Big Oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet and they're gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that's how they operate. That's not how Trump operates. That's not how Mike Pence operates. They understand the simple mathematics of economics.” IfsBigsHateSimplePlanetsTrumpMajorsEconomicsMathematicsBlameClimateClimate ChangeOilCorporationsGutsDestroyingHate YouMikeDonateBig Oil Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.” FactsSufferingWhiteCommonAttentionIssuesEconomicDangerousTrumpRacismProgramDirectRootsBlameAvailableFormerAfrican AmericanBotherVotingImmigrantsVotersDistressMisogynyWhite SupremacySupremacyXenophobiaEconomic Issues Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about a lot of these nominees. But I think, if you are actually going to turn someone down from a president's [Donald Trump] own Cabinet, it better be a lot more egregious than the cases we have seen.” IfsThinkingTurnsFightingPresidentCasesTrumpBlameDemocratComplainingCabinets Author:David Brooks